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The unit war diaries (record series WO 95) represent one of the most popular collections held by The National Archives. War diaries were kept for two main reasons: to provide an accurate...
- Digitised First World War Records
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- It's a Long Way From Tipperary
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- Digitised First World War Records
- Why digitise?
- Starting Conservation: Initial Survey
- Using Different Methods
- Holding History in Your Hands
Conservators play an important part in digitisation. Documents can be handled multiple times during the process; we ensure they are protected. To reflect this, The National Archives is unique in having a separate team of qualified conservators who work specifically on digitisation projects as part of our Digitisation Services department. The team i...
Our first step was to undertake a condition survey of the collection to understand the various materials and how they had fared over time. Modern wartime papers tend to be poor quality due to the paucity of available raw material; WO 95 is no different. In this sense, the material starts at a disadvantage. Despite this, and given that many were wri...
Once the results of the survey had been analysed, the conservation team researched and tested other conservation repair techniques to see if we could improve efficiency while maintaining our high standards. This research resulted in testing a method set out in a recent peer-reviewed conservation journal which involves pre-applying adhesive (in this...
The more recent phases of the project to digitise the remainder of the series have been made up of smaller selections of approximately 800 boxes at a time. As we predicted, the treatment requirement reduces significantly with each phase, as the documents have been handled much less frequently. The conservators have very strict deadlines for treatme...
The First World War unit war diaries are the most popular records from The National Archives’ First World War collection (file series WO 95) and the first in a series of First World War...
India Regiment. Many of the unit war diaries in series WO 95 have been digitised. For more information. Source: The National Archives Website: Research Guides. Indian Army personnel - The...
Jan 14, 2014 · We started digitising the First World War unit war diaries (record series WO 95) almost three years ago. The diaries rank among the most popular records in our entire collection, and scanning...
More than 80 million of our historical documents have been digitised and published online. In 2016-17, there were nearly 15 million visits to the UK Government Web Archive. The National Archives...
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Apr 6, 2022 · It involved thousands of volunteers who annotated more than 900,000 documents from the WWI Unit War Diaries (WO 95), which documented everyday activities from the Western Front. My work was to...
